Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] period " in BNC.
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| 1 | Partly Byzantine and partly Romanesque , it was altered in the Gothic period by Arnolfo di Cambio when he was working on the cathedral . |
| 2 | The mill-pond was drained for a three-year period in order to allow some necessary excavation . |
| 3 | Therefore , in the subsequent 56 patients adjuvant therapy with chenodeoxycholic acid 7 mg/kg/day and ursodeoxycholic acid 5 mg/kg/ day was given for an arbitrary period of three months after the procedure . |
| 4 | It was recognized in the Carolingian period by the author of the Life of Wulfram of Sens , who thought that the Frisian leader Radbod preferred to be with his ancestors in hell rather than alone in heaven . |
| 5 | Although the South Downs were cleared at a very early stage in man 's history in Britain , the clearing of the Wealden forest was delayed until the medieval period , the height of the clearance being in the 13th and 14th centuries , although parts may have been cleared as early as the ninth century . |
| 6 | In South Wales the part of the winter that could be devoted to training was confined to the pre-Christmas period because of the January start to ground preparation for the early potato crop . |
| 7 | It is widely accepted that the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century was preceded by a long period of gradual economic growth , but when the upturn began remains uncertain . |
| 8 | Admittedly the current burst of improvement dates back only to the Renaissance , which was preceded by a dismal period of stagnation , in which European scientific culture was frozen at the level achieved by the Greeks . |
| 9 | Unlike a probation order , which was not regarded as a sentence of the Court , a suspended sentence ranked not merely as a sentence , but as a sentence of imprisonment , with a condition attached which activated the element of custodial confinement only if another offence was committed within a stated period of not less than one year nor more than two ( originally three ) years . |
| 10 | CND had planned a number of marches in London for that summer but they were affected by a ban on all public processions ( other than those traditionally held ) in the Metropolitan Police District which was imposed for a twenty-eight-day period by the Metropolitan Police Commissioner , with the consent of the Home Secretary , under section 3 of the Public Order Act 1936 . |
| 11 | It was to lead to a long period of self-confessed misery for her , including beatings by her tranquilliser-addicted mother and spells of being locked naked with her sister in cupboards . |
| 12 | This appears to be subject to an exception where the licence was granted for a limited period of time and for a specific purpose . |
| 13 | The concession was granted for a 20-year period , ending in 2011 . |
| 14 | Brussels Cathedral ( 490 ) was built over a long period . |
| 15 | This was built over a long period — both Peter Parler and Rejsek worked on it . |
| 16 | A Face of War was shot over a 97-day period , and portrays the experiences of Mike Company , 3rd Battalion , 7th Marine Regiment ; during this period Jones was wounded twice and one of his photographers once . |
| 17 | He was going through a difficult period . |
| 18 | It 's no exaggeration to say that I owe my start in politics to the G M B because after having worked , as Dick said , for the G M B for a number of years it was the support of the G M B which helped me win the nomination for Chesterly Street and in the early eighties I can remember when er the Labour Party was going through a difficult period it was officials and members of the G M B who were a steadying influence in my constituency , as they have been ever since . |
| 19 | This denial was particularly important , since at the time the Thatcher administration was going through a bad period in terms of popular opinion on issues such as unemployment , social services , and housing . |
| 20 | The closure of the regional offices was phased over an 18-month period and affected 435 staff . |
| 21 | Diktynna 's name links her with Mount Dikte , and she was portrayed in the classical period as a mountain mother . |
| 22 | An increasing dryness towards the end of the previous period had allowed forest to spread over most of the peat areas , but this in turn was interrupted in the sub-Boreal period , 5 000 to 2 800 years ago , by a widespread but shallow marine transgression . |
| 23 | this practice was abandoned before the Dynastic Period but was symbolically retained in the Heb-sed or jubilee festival . |
| 24 | Graduation was followed by a difficult period in consulting and his appointment as assayist to the Royal Mint of Bangkok in 1903 was a welcome relief . |
| 25 | This creative period was followed by an exploitive period in which many theoretical physicists moved in to apply the new mechanics to a host of significant problems . |
| 26 | Population anxiety among the ruling classes was crystallized during the colonial periods of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 27 | British case at least , the problem of national or ethnic difference was masked for a long period by development occurring in the peripheries at the same rate and in similar ways to development in industrial England . |
| 28 | The ‘ retirement impact hypothesis ’ ( McMahon and Ford 1955 ) — the suggestion that retirement leads to ill health or even death having been out of favour during the inter-war depression ( Emerson 1959 ) was resurrected during the post-war period . |
| 29 | He did not spell out what was meant by a limited period , but he will have to tell Hon. Members how long employees will be covered by TOPS before the Minister winds it up and what chance employees or their representatives will have to influence the outcome of negotiations on the way in which the scheme is to be wound up . |
| 30 | The publications taken were constantly changing and it would appear that " Punch " was the only one which was taken throughout the whole period . |